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Posted June 02, 2014
i am pretty new to the game, on my second city attempt, and i have noticed that my environment rating is consistently in the red, usually full red. in my last city i had pollution all over the place, but this go around i have my industry far away from my reisdential and commercial zones and the pollution map shows them as not polluted at all. i have been adding parks and gardens here and there, but little has changed, and if i keep adding more my town will be too costly to run. i'm not really sure what i am doing that is causing the terrible environment rating, can anybody provide some tips on how to keep it green, because pollution and parks are really the only things i know of that affect it. is it possible my town is too crowded? my natural way of playing is to use EVERY tile, i only have some empty tiles as a row between different zone types as a visual marker to help me keep track of zones easier.
Posted June 02, 2014
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ashley2ashes: i am pretty new to the game, on my second city attempt, and i have noticed that my environment rating is consistently in the red, usually full red. in my last city i had pollution all over the place, but this go around i have my industry far away from my reisdential and commercial zones and the pollution map shows them as not polluted at all. i have been adding parks and gardens here and there, but little has changed, and if i keep adding more my town will be too costly to run. i'm not really sure what i am doing that is causing the terrible environment rating, can anybody provide some tips on how to keep it green, because pollution and parks are really the only things i know of that affect it. is it possible my town is too crowded? my natural way of playing is to use EVERY tile, i only have some empty tiles as a row between different zone types as a visual marker to help me keep track of zones easier.
Well, you can try to use city ordinances to promote the environment, like anti-pollution, car sharing, water saving, power saving, recycling and such. And once you have the funding to be able to do so you can go with greener forms of energy like windfarms, solar and lastly hydrogen power. Also, encourage high tech industry and discourage dirty industry by adjusting your taxes. Every little helps.

With water, also make sure you add in water purification centres when you need them and can afford them.
Posted June 02, 2014
I'm also having trouble keeping my environment rating from rock-bottom. I have natural gas power and some industry, but have been moving increasingly to wind power. Otherwise I have an extensive bus network for public transit, most of the environmental ordinances ticked off, my garbage is shipped to a neighbouring city, I have water purification, I have parks (and not just small parks, but medium and large ones) every second city block.

I was able to keep my environmental score maxed out earlier but suddenly it took a nose-dive and has flat-lined at zero ever since. My environment adviser suggests building more parks, but I already have a substantial amount of parkland and it doesn't explain why my rating has nose-dived.
Posted June 02, 2014
I wouldn't worry about the opinion polls - they are rather binary in nature, so stick to the data views and graphs to see how well pollution is being managed. If you have no pollution over your residential/commercial zones, then that is fine.

An easy way to minimize pollution (where it matters, anyway) is to split your city across multiple tiles, as pollution does not cross tiles. So start zoning residential/commercial in one tile, then make a road connection to another tile where you can put dirty industry and power plants.
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